Perpetual Bwog favorite Richard Bulliet has once again treated the students of Islamo-Christian Civilization to a semester of quotable quotations. Read and learn: this is the wit that lured Ahmadinejad to campus. Too Much Information It’s like getting a contact high when everyone around you is smoking dope but you don’t do that–you’re still sharing […]

Grumbly reactions to Class Day speakers are traditional at Columbia (John McCain, too conservative! Matthew Fox, too pedestrian!). Joel Klein has received only a smattering of disapproval in the comments, on account of his low name recognition. To stoke your envy (or pride–at least we didn’t end up with Bianca Jagger), Bwog has collected a […]

Bwog is taking it slow today and, most likely, so are you. Luckily, the good people at the 114th Annual Varisty Show (a.k.a. Morningside Hates) have unveiled their website. It features high-larious Dateline-style investigations of the V-show’s alleged misdeeds. Bwog has, of course, watched all the videos, but isn’t quite feeling up to full reviews. […]

Goodbye, Nicholas Dirks‘s red bandana and the profusion of hair it covered Goodbye, Courseworks! Goodbye, Speccie #1 Goodbye, Other Speccie Goodbye, Israeli-Palestinian conflict (???!!!!!) — at least among campus student groups — maybe…

As anyone who has stepped outside in the past hour might have noticed, there are swarms of over-studied, over-worked kids piling out of Butler and Lerner who are descending en masse on the Candyland BBQ. Lines stretch around the quad, with students at the beginning of the line providing Bwog with estimated wait times ranging […]

It’s unofficially academic honors day on Bwog, so in a very special double-feature of Senior Wisdom, we check in with CC Salutatorian, Julia Kalow. Name, School: Julia Kalow, Columbia College  Claim to fame: I’m the one you have to listen to at CC Class Day who’s not Joel Klein.  Post-grad plans: PhD in organic chemistry […]

They’re setting up on South Lawn now—grilled meat, adult beverages (the usual 2 IDs to drink), and 200 pounds of sweet, sweet candy. It’ll go from 5 until 8PM.

Tipster Frances Jeffrey-Coker slyly informed Bwog about a film she directed that took home a Best Picture prize last night: “The nationwide Campus Moviefest competition took place on campus 2 weeks ago, where groups of Columbia students had a week to make a 5-minute movie. The top 16 from Columbia were shown at the AMC […]

Every year, an ESC meeting answers all the questions. All the mysterious post-meeting activities, all the jokes that made no sense, and all the surreptitious eye contact – each explained by one ultimate meeting. Well, I probably missed it, because last night’s wasn’t the one. And it was the last meeting of the semester. Shit. Nevertheless, I could […]

The latest in our continuing Senior Wisdom series: CC valedictorian Maxim Pinkovskiy  Name, School:     Maxim Pinkovskiy, CC Claim to fame:     I was the 2004 M&M Peanut Minute Student of the Year in Xavier Sala-i-Martin’s Intermediate Macro class! Post-grad plans:     Ph.D. in economics at MIT, then – I hope – professor at Columbia […]

Coatsworth: once temporal, now forever. Coatsworth: That whole Ahmadinejad thing made stuff complicated for him Coatsworth, we’re sure, has appreciated all the work you’ve done for the Spectator Coatsworth has enjoyed both the Project Bluelight film and There Will Be Blood, though since Dreamgirls  he’s lost faith in the Oscars. “If chance may have me […]

Charles Tilly, the eminent Joseph L. Buttenwieser Professor of Social Science, passed away this morning. An official University-wide announcement is still in the works, though some of his students and colleagues have organized a vigil tonight at 7 p.m. that will take place under his Fayerweather office’s (514) window. You can read more about Tilly […]

Tipster/photographer Jason Patinkin just sent the following photos Bwog’s way. “Well bwog, I hope you enjoyed the last week of sitting on the steps, because once again Columbia taketh our favorite midday hangout.  Indeed the construction of wooden posts and metal bleachers across the steps begins today (or maybe yesterday),” he writes. It’s that time […]

In an email sent to the entire Columbia community this afternoon President Bollinger officially announced the appointment of interim dean of the School of International and Public Affairs, John Coatsworth, as the new permanent head of SIPA.  PrezBo welcomed Professor Coatsworth to his new role by listing his myriad academic accomplishments and suggesting how they […]

While spending a semester studying abroad in Ecuador, Bwogger in exile, Sara Vogel, fell into an internship with the press office in Ciudad Eloy Alfaro, where the country’s brightest and finest (we hope!) are hard at work forming the Republic of the Equator all over again, and for the 21st time. Her dispatch: I just […]